With features and production from Pitbull, AfroJack, Future, and others, Nick Cannon has put together White People Party Music, an album that tries its hand at every trend on the charts. And interestingly, a couple songs aren’t that bad either.

Funny thing is, Nick wants us to believes songs like “Looking For A Dream” are satire; however, the execution is too earnest. Not only does the album run too long, but the “funny” songs aren’t funny. Nick Cannon makes The Lonely Island look like Jay-Z, Nas & Kanye formed a supergroup. Is it really a joke if no one is laughing?

And when that fails White People Party Music is what it is: a pile of sh*t.

So I was schooling my boy yesterday about dj jazzy Jeff n the fresh prince before the tv show. His mom shielded him from rap related shit as a kid so he never knew will till the tv show.
I showed him 3 videos. Parents just don’t understand, girls of the world, and beat mike Tyson.
I remember @TRA sayin he mentored him. from watching those videos fresh prince could’ve been looked at as the nick cannon of his era. Maybe even a drake of his era. Seriously if u have a second watch them it’s scary. And it made me look at nick a lil differently.

What Aaron said. Everything about Nick seems forced and attention whorish. Plus Will’s music was fun, and while corny at times, he didn’t try to pull this album off. Or have a cringeworthy song like “Gigolo”.

Oh Nick… i dont hate im as much as yall do. He was a big child star tho. he made Nickelodeon a ton of cash before Nickelodeon was cool. He was one of their few urban stars…. Nick grew up at a weird time in urban America.

Beside Will Smith being way more talented, Will came of age at a time when it was ok to be Black and not be in the thug/gangster” box. Will was a teen prodigy who got into MIT at the age of 16, but his upper mddle class parents gave him a 2 year window to make the hiphop thing work before pushing on to college. I knew hardcore dope boyz and Vice Lords in Chi that bumped Parents Just Don’t Understand… Hiphop didnt pressure Will to be something he wasn’t so he was free to take the chances he took. Urban America accepted that every Black male wasn’t a drug dealer/gangbanger in training and saw Will’s success as not something all of us were boxed in by.

the era Nick Cannon came up in post Nickelodeon, was just the opposite. It was Black+Male=Thug/Pimp, etc… and Nick’s awkwardness in his young adult years comes from being unable to navigate that. it colors everything he does including his music.

he hasn’t developed a real voice or perspctive beyond this. In another world he’s a proto-Childish Gambino/Donald Glover… that awkward young Black man that’s smart enough to embrace his awkwardness juxtaposed against what he thinks hes supposed to be.

even this white people paty music album is about viewing white people/whiteness and cultural stuff thru a lens he feels forced to look thru.

but all that said, he still bagged Mariah. and that will always bother and confound every cool brother over the age of about 30.

I think I’m the only one that doesn’t hate Nick Cannon. I like him. Just look at those Nickelodeon kids he came up with & compare them to Nick now. Corny, yes. But dumb he is not. I’m proud of how far he has come and the moves he has made since being on All That. He takes care of business. Plus, he seems like a cool dude. Dah well.